The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-08-06
NEW INDUSTRY FOR WOMEN.
Sending DsIntIly Served Meals to Fami-
lies Who DO Light Housekeeping.

4 new industry for women is beginning
Ia evolve itself in New York, which may
yet do much toward solving the veXed
servant Girl question. Some three months
ago q woman of good old New York
family, educated and capable, left widow
without money and having served no ap-
premiership to any Of the industries 10y
which women earn bread and butter, be
gan ~ think Of putting her pride in her
pocket and turning her notable housckcep-
ing talents 10 account by looking for ser
vice in "a family As cook.
Considering the matter further, IL &C
CURED Ia her that she could do no better.
Securing with some little effort, the pro-
jet being a novel one, a clontage Of half
a dozen families in her immediate neigh
bOrhOOd that were grOaning under dys-
pepsia, induced 10y eight housekeeping, "
she began 10 send out, three times a day,
deicately cooked and daintily served
meals Her venture was 50 Immediately
successful that she looked up q New Eng
land h0usekeepcr and couple Of stout
armed Swedish girls % help her, and her
business sprang, almost in a single night,
10 the utmost dimensions that she could
lied steaks br0iled by the green girl, fam
HES that were starving on meals elabora-
ted over the pickering gas jet, families
that had eaten table board in the hase-
mcnt dining room around the corner
families whose pOcketboOks gr0aned nt the
expense Of the waiter load sent IN from
hotel or restaurant, families whose heads
were business women without time for
cooking. families tired ~ the annoyance
Of servants I'm small fiat, were glad 90
De supplied with honest home cooking
varied, palatable, and Mt reasonable
price.
She has twenty-one families on her list
at present, ! think, 81 whom She supplies
Just that wholesome round of breakfasts,
lunches and dinners that the average
house mother would offer % husband and
little folks. Fruit Ina season, ina the morn
ing, oatmeal or wheaton grits, fish, steak
or chops, a side dish, such ms stewed kid
ncys, sausage liver and bacon. eggs, cof
fee. tea or chocolate. bread and butter.
milk and sugar Soup, fish, a roast, three
vegetables dessert and coffee make up the
dinner all Of which is sent ont at cost
Of - week % single person, - each
for members ~ families. though as what
is supplied for two is sufficient for three,
the cost per household is not rcckoned In
muluplcs Of that sum I'm "a way the cx-
pertinent is one of cooperative h0usekeep-
ing, for, practically, the cost Of everyday
living is divided among % number Of fmni-
lies purchase for an being madc to-
gether, the labor for All systematized and
simpli6ed. and the waste Of all minimized,
the result being that each family saves
nearly the full amountof It's cook Wagcs,
and is freed from the tyranny Of Castle
Garden besides
Two other women, emulous of the first,
talk Of starting similar enterprises. The
scheme is IN It's infancy, but whenever
sufficient number 81 families within "a ra-
dius Of block or two rs near the great
fiat houses can De interested in it, IL has
promise u am opening for an industry for
women and Of relief from divers perpleN-
Ties for the families they serve. Eliza
Putnam Heaton in Brooklyn Times.